TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Drawing Studio in midtown Tucson was filled with jubilation and artistic energy as the local community came together to celebrate Juneteenth with a special Pan-African art ...

When art dealer Thandi Sibisi opened her gallery in 2012, it was the first in South Africa to be entirely owned by a Black woman. But spiraling overheads soon forced her to close the space, and ...

Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme ...

RABAT, Morocco — When Morocco 's King Mohamed VI visited Havana in 2017, Cuban-American gallery owner Alberto Magnan impressed him with a “full immersion” in the Caribbean island's art and culture, ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...

Hailing from Dakar, Senegal, contemporary artist Soly Cissé maintains a practice unrestricted by disciplinary boundaries. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage, the context and ...

In a study published in Telestes, Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Dr. Margarita Díaz-Andreu categorized the various dance scenes depicted in South African rock art, drawing on ethnographic sources, published ...

When Tokini Peterside launched ART X Lagos as West Africa’s pre-eminent international art fair in 2016, she wanted to restore visual arts back to its former glory and bring it back to its rightful ...

Scientists have found the oldest known drawing in history -- and it looks #familiar. The 73,000-year-old red cross-hatch pattern looks just like a hashtag, also recognizable as the US pound sign, the ...

For the 14th annual Art and Architecture History Capstone course, students worked with staff of the Art Museum to develop the original exhibition Art & Exchange: African Textiles in the Global ...

Global auction sales of works by African-born artists fell 8.4% last year to just under US$80 million, yet the market continues to show strength particularly for contemporary artists, and, strikingly, ...

In 1948, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré had a vision that led him to invent a new writing system. The Museum of Modern Art explores his more than 1,000 drawings. By Jason Farago African art has had a place at ...